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Title: Dogfight Guadalcanal
Post by: Meatwad on November 24, 2006, 04:01:55 PM: Tonight (friday 24th) 10pm (9 central) on Discovery, the show Dogfight is going to run the dogfigts of Guadalcanal. Im going to watch it for sure, should be really interesting
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Post by: SunKing on November 24, 2006, 05:39:24 PM: Yup saw the commerical too. Looks great.
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Post by: sluggish on November 24, 2006, 05:59:11 PM: When I first saw the commercial for this program I thought it was for AHII. This would be a great program for AH to advertise during.
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Post by: Meatwad on November 24, 2006, 06:22:52 PM: Yes :)
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Post by: cav58d on November 24, 2006, 06:25:44 PM: really cool show...this is the fourth episode of the series
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 07:20:03 PM: I thought this was going to be on the History Channel? It's on Discovery?

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Title: Dogfight Guadalcanal
Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 07:22:14 PM: Dogfights
HISTORY CHANNEL Nov 24 09:00pm Add to My Calendar
Series/Other, 60 Mins.

"Guadalcanal"
American pilots of the Cactus Air Force match skills and instincts with top Japanese aces as they battle in the skies above Guadalcanal.

Original Airdate: November 24, 2006

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Post by: Meatwad on November 24, 2006, 08:00:44 PM: OOPS

Thats what I get for watching Discovery :(
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 09:11:04 PM: Pretty damn neat stuff. Can't wait til PC's get the technology to have these kind of graphics.

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Post by: nirvana on November 24, 2006, 09:21:27 PM: Narrator said P400 Airacobra and I went "wtf?" Had to look it up:o
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 09:22:10 PM: Yeah, those are just P-40's with Zero's on their tails!

:D

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Post by: Meatwad on November 24, 2006, 09:23:58 PM: You mean P-39's?
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 09:28:30 PM: No, P-400 = P-40+Zero.

One damn good looking plane esp. for a floatplane. Mitsubishi F1M.

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Post by: nirvana on November 24, 2006, 09:29:23 PM: P400 is a P39, the Mk. 1 version or something. It's still a P39 and that is what they should have called it!:mad:
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 09:33:47 PM: IIRC the P-400 was an export version of the P-39 that the Army Air Corps took over.

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Post by: Meatwad on November 24, 2006, 09:33:56 PM: I want the F1M, HT needs to get right on it

chop chop

(please?) :)
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 09:42:54 PM: P-400 Airacobra I - P-39D for Royal Air Force, briefly called Caribou; Hispano 20 mm cannon (60 rounds) instead of the 37 mm cannon. 200 were requisitioned by USAAF after Pearl Harbor; most were used for training, but some saw service in the Southwest Pacific.

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Post by: nirvana on November 24, 2006, 09:46:18 PM: Ah ok, thank you.
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 09:55:35 PM: Swett...that dude had the best first mission ever. Wow!

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Post by: Meatwad on November 24, 2006, 09:58:26 PM: "One of my flaps didnt come down for some stupid reason, probabally from the hole in my wing"

Classic :rofl
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Post by: zorstorer on November 24, 2006, 10:45:34 PM: Notice the one move they almost always show in this program?

Teh HO!!!! ;)
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Post by: WilldCrd on November 24, 2006, 10:51:10 PM: Quote
Originally posted by zorstorer
Notice the one move they almost always show in this program?

Teh HO!!!! ;)

Was a viable tacktic hence the reason "most" fighters had a armored window in teh front
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 24, 2006, 10:52:54 PM: Makes you wonder what Ch. 200 in the SW Pacific must have sounded like.

:lol

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Post by: RAIDER14 on November 24, 2006, 10:59:59 PM: Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
Makes you wonder what Ch. 200 in the SW Pacific must have sounded like.

:lol

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:lol
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Post by: zorstorer on November 24, 2006, 11:06:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by WilldCrd
Was a viable tacktic hence the reason "most" fighters had a armored window in teh front

I realize it was....

Just thought it was funny like raider and diablo ;)
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Post by: Debonair on November 25, 2006, 12:29:17 AM: i think the RAAF oprtated P-400s a bunch too...or rnzaf, i forget which, but one of them two
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Post by: Nilsen on November 25, 2006, 02:21:01 AM: Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
Makes you wonder what Ch. 200 in the SW Pacific must have sounded like.

:lol

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:rofl

After a few years away im prolly signing up for Ah next month... should be interesting to see how the ch200 crowd has changed
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Post by: Masherbrum on November 25, 2006, 03:30:58 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Meatwad
"One of my flaps didnt come down for some stupid reason, probabally from the hole in my wing"

Classic :rofl

I was laughing when he said that.
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Post by: rpm on November 25, 2006, 04:06:36 AM: Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
Makes you wonder what Ch. 200 in the SW Pacific must have sounded like.

:lol

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:D
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Post by: Excel1 on November 25, 2006, 04:29:38 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Debonair
i think the RAAF oprtated P-400s a bunch too...or rnzaf, i forget which, but one of them two

that'll be the raaf. the only fighters the rnzaf used in pto were the brewster buffalo P40 and F4U
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 25, 2006, 04:36:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Masherbrum
I was laughing when he said that.

How about when the Deblanc said he was worth "A 10 lbs. bag of rice."

Those old vet's have a wicked sense of humor.

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Post by: storch on November 25, 2006, 06:42:59 AM: if memory serves me the P-400 were export versions of the P-39 the notable differences were a 20mm in lieu of the 37mm, no oxygen and no supercharger. supposedly below 8000 asl they turned rather nicely but not against the anorexic A6M or the equally fluffy Ki43. in any event they were outclassed from the get go. maybe widewing can step in with more info.
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Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on November 25, 2006, 10:02:05 AM: The Allison has an integral supercharger. With 6:1 compression, I doubt it would do much more than idle on 100+ octane aircraft gas without a supercharger. They did have different models of superchargers. But most Allisons just had a single speed single stage centrifugal supercharger. Had they been two stage two speed superchargers, they'd have performed on par with the Rolls Royce engines that were so equipped.

The old fighter pilots have a great sense of humor for the most part. Several of them used to send me jokes in my email on a regular basis. Robin Olds is one of the funniest I've ever heard. The guy just keeps me in stitches, my daughter laughs at him like he's Robin Williams.
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Post by: WilldCrd on November 25, 2006, 10:44:52 AM: yeah the old vets still talk the same way they did back in the day.
comments like "i saw his lil gomer goggles and his lil gomer scarf just before i pulled in behind him and shot a missile up his tailpipe" - cunninghame circa vietnam
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Post by: Blooz on November 25, 2006, 01:21:59 PM: I raised my left hand up to check the time and as I did a 7.7mm bullet took the watch right off my wrist! That scared me a bit. - Deblanc

Classic!